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Show Page 6—-THE HERALD. Provo, Utah, Friday, January 25, 1980 Sports: What's happening on the national scene, State and local sports, columnsandopinions ALK CougarsBlitz Aztecs By MARION DUNN Herald Editor SAN DIEGO — BYU's talented basketball team just keeps on feeling ‘ight at home on the road. Cougars finished back-to-back 100 point games by running away from an out-gunned San Diego State team 123-91 in the Sports Arena here Thurs- Pallid 31.8 from the field on 14 of 44 atwas about as busy si his tempts. Morris had 9 points to lead the ssuiey ta ked teea sts one ere Aztecs. There was some 7007 news for the he scored 30 points, 18 in the first half Smooth Durranthad 18points, Aztecs, but it was in football. The 8 rebounds and 7 assists as he turned in Aztecs announced the signing of the naanother tion's junior college quarterback, it game. Fred i Roberts had 13 points, 5 Matt Kofler who wasfirst team junior rebounds and assists. Scott Runia had college All-American from Mesa J.C day night. Last Saturday the 10 points and 8 assists. Steve Craig had here.Heis the son of Aztec line coach beat ColoradoState in Provo,1 In 12 Otto Kofler and had limited his choices points as did Steve Anderson. addition it was BYU's 8th win on the entire BYU team played well to San Diego State and UCLA. San against only two defeats. The and the Cougars shot 64.5 it from Diego State won. Kofler is a good runCougars boosted their WAC corres to5- the field. SDS shot 33.8 from the field. ner and will give the Aztecs an added 1 and their overall mark to Eddie Morris led the Aztecs with 24 threat nextfall. San DiegoState is now aiinthe WAC ts. BYU fg {ga ft {00 reb pf tp 2 min and 5-12 overall. “This is the fourth straight game in Roberts, Fred $7 3643 134% For years the Cougars were con- which our fast-break has worked really Durrant, Devin 74 4 8 1 18 21 218451 8 sidered unbeatable at home butran into besacer! said. ven that noares Taylor. Alan Runia, Scott 54 00 3 3 10 26 some problemson the road. This year’s ie Wyoming gaine. expected jinge, Danny 4212352032 BYU team is 6-2 in the Marriott Center. Diego to run with us so that wasn’t a Craig. Steve 47431 12:3 2 Today the Cougars hopped across surprise. But what can you say. Wejust Ballif, Greg 45001161 10 Maxwell, Mike 233410728 part of the Pacific Ocean to Hawaiifor Tan awaywith it.” Steve $5 44242 0 a Saturday night date with the UniverRunia had something to say. ‘‘It was — ‘ameron, Stan OO 00 sity of Hawaii. The gamewill start at fun,” he said. Trumie, Steve WHuHSIl52R 10:30 p.m. MST and will be carried on 4b ow431 7 And it was fun for the Cougars who Kite, Greg ‘TEAM REBOUNDS(Included in Totals) 4 KSLradio and run on a delayed basis on let it all hang out in this one. 25:30 M25 123 33 200 channel 11, KBYU-TV at 8:30 p.m. en Ist Half 60.57% 2nd Half 69.7% Game BYU found the Aztecs werewilling to Monday night. ‘run with them in the first half and this The 123 points ties a BYU record for is Ist Half 71.4% 2nd Half 87.0% Game would aatog, ame ame. ak Cougars beat was just what the Coug: fg fga ft fta reb pf tp a min . San Diego led at 6-2, and 8-6 Sb8v $17 35 12 3 19 0 36 and thescore was tied at 2, 6 and 8, but Gordon, Eddy Eddie 1028 47 9 2 4 2 35 Arnold’s Archers shot to a 17-12 lead Morris, Holden, Chris 413 02 10180 2 614 46 3-4 16 9 33 wasa boosted this to 26-13 and atintermission Gwynn, Tony lendoza, Joe 181220314 were in front by 25 at 57-32. i levada-Las ‘egas in 1! O10022019 The was pure racehorsein that Hamilton, Marcus The game was played in the same Smith, Mark 120001249 arena wher’ the Diego Clippers half. The two teams madethe transi- Brown, Jerry 38022261 11 tion from offense to defense and vice Stewart, Dennis $9 011262 15 ee oon roe led Michael 140022225 game in that it was run and versa about as fast as it is possible on Gay, sgKen wooo00002 shoot basketball and was extremely both ends of thefloor. 25 145 451 10 But BYU was little better at the FeaREBOUNDSae in Totals) physical. switch and much better in the ehwotin, 4 23 91 23 200 a noesaourro ee ron Ist wailaa and Half 38.5% Game department. Ainge, Durrant, Runia ai from way out while “en Ast Half 50.0% 2nd Half 42.9% Game bry “th seething to score 123 its on the road. You can do it at Roberts, Taylor, Kite and Durrant OFFICIALS: Manton, Bishop. ebut on the road it is something were impressive inside. The Cougars shot 60 percent from the Technical Foul: Ainge (hanging on rim) Attendance 5,717, ‘And while the was on field on 26 of 43. Ainge was 9 of 14 for 18 BYUCOUGARS 57 6 123 2 9 9 the ati recited ees , points. Durrant had 12 on 5 of 9 from the field and 2-2 from the line. Roberts had 9 and was 4-6 from the field. Runia and Craig were both 3-4 from the field. In rebounding, BYU hada 28-21 edge but Taylor had only one pull-down. Dura ‘rant and Ainge . had 5 each and Roberts “any Ange ther came by and By contrast, San Diego State shot a said, “ T'll getin line. I don’t Ange wasShout osbu Utes Dump Rainbows Aggies UpendSpartans, 95-92 HONOLULU(UPI) — Danny Vranes and Tom Chambers combined for 48 points to lead Utah to an 89-83 Western Athletic Conference victory over LOGAN, Utah (UPI) — Brian points and had six <Tebounds in pacing the Utah State Aggies to a 95-92 overtime win against PCAA-rival San Jose State Thursday it. jackson scored five of his points in the last minute and half of regulation play to tie the game and send it into overtime. San Jose’s top scorer was Mickey fae! who had 19 points. The score at the end of four quarters of play was 87-all. Aggies forward Dean Hunger opened the overtime period with a 15-foot jump shot. One minute later, sophomore Leo Cunningham extended the Utah State lead to 91-87. The rest of Utah State’s scoring in the overtime period came from thefoul line. San Jose’s overtime scoring came on a pair of free throws from both David Bird and Ed Saunders. Saunders also added a basket in the final five-minute game get out of hand. Aggies coach Hawaii Thursday night. Rod Tueller called the contest a Chambersscored 14 ofhis 23 points in “bloodbath,” while Spartans coachBill the second half. including 12 in a 34Berry said the officiating ‘‘left minute period,to break a 56-56 tie from something to be desired.’ A total of 67 which Hawaii never recovered personal fouls were called during the Vranes washigh scorer for the game ame. with 25, - Utah State is now 13-3 on the season, Hawaii, led by Aaron Strayhorn’s 18 and 5-0 in the Pacific Coast Athletic As- points and Eric Bowman's 16, pulled to sociation. San Jose fell to 9-8 overall, within two, 79-77, with less than 1% and2-3 in league play. The two teams minutes remaining, but Vranes added a meet again Sunday in San Jose. layup and two free throws to put the Utes aheadby six. SAN aooePel The Utes are now 4-2 in WACplay 19, Rank 4 129, Graham 41-39, and 7-13 overall, while Hawaii drops to Mender62214rds, hensshe Russo 0 0-0 0, Saunders 471015, Sullivan 6, Swarbrick 2-4 in the WAC and 9-8 overall. 0000, auiams4128 ‘Totals 362090 92 UTAH STATE (86) hohuat\6 eiHH 3, B. Jackson 7 12-16 26, Cun11, Hood 6 2-4 14, perio 13, we48, ‘Washington 03-6 3, Austefjord 0 0savas. Toda 26-9 95 tit mn AH ST. His B. Jackson, McElrath.Total “Feuled Out— Rank. Graham, Mendez,aac. ‘ouls: ah coaches said theofficials let the Utah St., Jackson. Ejected— Hood. A— UTAH (88) Mone nauk Johnson 5 0-0 10, Rice 5 66 16, lion 1 2-2 4, Vranes 9 7-10 25, Bankowski 20-0 4, Lantttias Chambers 9 5-7 23, Larson 10-0 2. ‘Totals: A HAWAII (83) Strayhorn 7 4518, Jones 40-28, hla): ‘Smith 5 2-2 12, Louden 4 3-3 11, Bowman 7 6, Beckerle 04-6 4, Pineau 2468, Totals: 31212988 Halftime score: Utah 43. Hawaii 39. Personal fouls: Utah 24, Hawaii 24. Fouled out: Vranes, Smith, Pineau. A: 2,771 GOINGIN LOWfor a takedown is Timpview’s Steve Aaron, right, during his match with Spanish Fork’s Mark Curtis Thursday night on the Don mat. This was Viking Matmen Dump Cavemen By PHIL SHURTLEFF lerald Sports Writer Pleasant Grove wrestlers warmed up for their tournament tonight with a league victory Thursday night over American Fork, 37-19, to remain on top of the Region Six standings. In other league action second place Spanish Fork slipped a bit with a 30-20 loss to visiting Timpview while Springville moved into a tie with the Dons after the Devils downed Cedar City in a road trip 36-15. Also in Region Six Payson whipped Carbon on the road 49-7 while Dixie gave Provo a very unhospitable southern welcome to beat the Bulldogs, 28-20. In Region Two Brighton's Bengals thumped Orem 41-7, Region Nine’s Lehi downed Union 36-17 in their final league dual and in Region Eight Juab whipped Manti52-9 in Nephi. In Spanish Fork the Dons jumpef off to a quick lead on the strength of a pin at 100 by John Olsen whoquickly ended Keifer Takasaki’s 6-0 mark in the first —Marion Dunn A Dayat the Office SAN DIEGO — As has been mentioned in this space before, there is no end of things to do in San Diego.If all else fails, you can find a’cliff overlooking the ocean where you can sit and watch the U.S. Navy play games — games that could turn deadly serious in these unstable times. Ss, yesterday BYU athletic director Glen Tuckett and I went to work with some names that should be well-known to all of you. We wentout on the job with Billy Casper of Mapleton, Pat McGowan, Buddy Allin, John Fought, Mike Brannan and Big Bob Betley, the only one who hasn’t lived in Utah County. But you all know Big Bob. He’s picked up a few paychecks in such centers of work as Tim- panogos, Alpine, Riverside, TriCities, Gladstan, Hobble Creek, Spanish Fork, Wasatch State Park and Cascades. I’ve got to say this. If you are going to work out of doors you couldn’tfind a better place totoil than the one we wereat. It has an exotic name — Torrey Pines — and it sprawls over a few hundred acres of ground on the hills of La Jolla. It offers you a view of the Pacific that tends to take your mind off such mundane chores as three-foot putts, and buried sand shots The golf tournament has glamor of its own. Singer Andy Williamslendshis nametoit and the appendage says, San Diego Open. Bob Hope wasthere. In fact, he played with Casper in Wednesday's Pro-Am. ‘Hope andI always play togetherin this Pro-Am,’’ Casper explained casually. There is good reason for this. Casper started playing golf not far from these La Jolla hills. Some years ago he re-designed about five holes on the Torrey Pines course and before he packed his bags and moved his family to Mapleton this washis home. And Billy Casper has friends here. In fact, when he madehis wayto the No.1 tee on the South Course yesterday, almost every oneof the galleryites who passed him said hello and he answered, calling most of them by name. “T’m not playing good golf,” Caspersaid. ‘‘I've hit16 balls out of bounds and that’s more than I hit in the entire rest of my career. At Pebble Beach I shot a score that I haven't shot since I was 12.”” Casper asked Tuckett if he were in townto recruit and Glen answerd, ‘We're here for the basketball game tonight.” Is BYUplaying here tonight?” Casper asked. (Editor’s note: I told you the papers here didn’t have a word about the game in Wednesday's edition.) “We are . Can you come?”’ said Tuckett, “T've made other plans, but I've gotto tell Shirley.” ThenBilly called for Shirley, asked several other couples if they had seen her, and suddenly there she was. “BYU is playing State here tonight,” Bill said. ‘Good. Let's go,” Shirley said. ‘How can we with that dinner date?” Bill asked. “It's at 5 so we'll have time to eat and still make the game,”’ Shirley explained. Billy had 4 harder timeon the course. He three-putted thefirst me andfinished the frontside at ot the winnerof two tour titles and Rookie of the Year honors last year, was an early victim of an on-the-job accident. Fought started on the No. 10 tee. He flew his drive to the right and the ball hit a womanspectator in the mouth. The ambulance camefor her and Fought neverrecovered finishing with a Brannanshot a 77. McGowan a 74. Betley a 75 and only Allin was able to match par as he camein with a 72. But it was like any day on the job. McGowan,the blonde, handsome youngster from northern California, could have been 3under with any luck atall. Tuckett and I followed Pat for his entire 18 holes and he could have been up amongtheleaders. Onthe first hole McGowanbirdied and he had a birdie putt just the most even matchof the night as both men tied at 88. The T-Birds, however dominated the scoreboard and cameout on top in the final dual of the night, 30-20. slide past the cup on two. He was l-under until he reached the 5th green. There he had a tricky downhill putt of about18 feet for a bird. His long putt left him with a sidehill putt of about three feet.. As he waited to putt the Goodyear blimp suddenly rose from the sea not too far away. The blimp looked like a huge whale coming out of the ocean and everyone watched as it glided along the cliffside. It was pretty, but I told you there are job distractions here and this was one too many. McGowan missed the putt to go even and he followed with two more bogeys to go 2-over. As he madethe turn, he said, “There are a lot of birdie holes here — nine.” That's positive thinking. And McGowan also turned some of them into birdie holes. He got back to 1-over with a bird on 14, but had a birdie putt lip outon 15, bogeyed 16 to go back to 2-over, had a birdie putt dip in and out on 17 and another make a complete circle of the cup and comeout on 18. Thereis no end of things to do in San Diego.If all else fails you cango to Torrey Pines, watch the golfers and admirethe ocean and have the best of two worlds. It makes you envy these jocks who work with their hands and workout-of-doors. period. But the points scored by Olsen, now 14-1 for the season,didn’t last long as the next three battles went to Timpview to give the T-Birds a 9-6 lead. While Spanish Fork gained two more pins at iB and 169, it was the pin by aiceview's heavyweightin the night’s finale which made the difference. It was 24-20 for the T-Birdsinto the battle e big men with a mustsituation for But Timpview's Russell Meldnon came through with a pin at the second period buzzer to ice the meetfor the visitors. Tonight's Tournament in Pleasant Grovewill begin at 7 p.m. with sessions Saturday scheduled for 1 and 7 p.m. With the talent entered it should be a tough meet. Joining the Vikings will be teams from Spanish Fork, American Fork, Wasatch, Skyline, Cottonwood, Olympus and Preston, Idaho. Also in action Saturday Oremwill be in oeceuten Tournament. easant Grove 37-American Fork iw-Terry ‘Allman, AF. pinned Glen ready, PG, Ist per., 107-Doug Christensen, PG, pinned Billy Henderson, AF, 3rda ieBarry Frasier. PG, dec. Jeff Hanson, AF, 14-2, 121-Bobby Beppu, dec. Scott White, AF, 128-John Boley, AF, tied Craig Jasper, PG, 5-5, 132-Lynn Kitchen, AF, dec. Ray Bennett, PG, 4-3, 141-Craig Cook, PG, pinned Kurt Fraughton, AF tad per, 1¢-Timo Hoggard, AF, dec. Tim Bird, Da Lapou, CC,de.Andy Fergus, su wid Doiy, S pizae’ Rock Lopour pet.Hwt-Jeff oytanceSpied Bob ler, CC, 2nd per. 100-Brad owesL, .Monel 107-Mark Grant, L, dec. Farrell McCook, U, 124, UdRobert 140-Greg Carter, L, ‘by forfeit, weary Thayiz by forfeit. 17-Frank Winn, U, dec. Darin Allman, L, 8-0, \Wr-Stacy 69-1 righton 41-Orem 7 ioo-Tadd Norio B, dee, Matt Nelson, 0,165, JorMarkWatanokB, byfret 14Paul Crump, 1, O, eeony Twitchell, diceDavid Peterson 0, 128-David Kirk, B,d Greg Mulligan B, Dale Bennett, dec. Garret Muse, 6.dec. Dyke Briggs,B54 Bytendorp, Bydec. Rabert Kresge, 0, 6.3.iov-brad. Thompson, B, pinned Lance Shurtleff , st pe. 1-Cris Fallntn,B, dec sian Datweiter0, 190, HwtRandyRicks, 5. dec, Brett Richardson, 0, 124 ltoRex RoberisP pinned Xaveir Martinez, C, pet, l0r-Brian ‘Loader, P. pinned Lloyd Ist per., 11¢-Jeff Schramm, P, WadeWiliams Crist pr, 121Mark Killa.by iy Doug alten P,dec.Randy Miner,C13, ec. Cunningham, C,¢ stat Tuo-Quin Dun , C,dee, Bret Wilson, P61, 17 Mark Sank, P. pinned Rick Erickson, C, 2nd per pitRon Aston, P dec: Mike Jone, C88‘i Smith, P,pinhed Gust Kalatzes ca PigrDean Kitchen, AF, dec, Brad Baxter, PU. Danny Igr-Kevin Clark P, dee. Dan Munden, Tw: 3, 169-Alan Hardy, PG,pinned Jobn Miner, AF, Ist Paul Udink, C, dec. Quinn Rich, P, it per. 187-Steve Anderson, PG, pinned Ed Burnside, AF 2nd per., Hwt-Mike Young, PG, dec. Jay Turaer, AF,5-1 %-Provo 2 Juab S2-Manti 9 100-Brian Beesley, D, dec. Dorey Lytle, P, 41, 100-Drew Kay, J, pinned Bobby Blauer, M, Ist 107-Barry Blake, D, o Victor Shorty, P, 14-0, per. l07Kevin Broadhead, Jpied Ea Young, 114 Darl Kuhn, D, dec, by Jess Christen, P, 10-1, Mist per, I¢Nathan Memmott J, dee, Doug 121-Alan Caplan, D, dec. M. 5-2, 121-Blair Kay. J, dec. Ken Beaser, 128-Ron Rampton, Mes i2hMark Boynton, M, dec. Chris Johnson, J, 2, drew 134-Russ Hall, J, pinned Matt Jackson, M, Ist per., Lary Reynolds, D, dee. Taft Rogers P M41-Kerry Lynn. J, pinned David Monson, M, Ist 187-Todd West, D,pinned Kelly Duke, P, it per, re 147-Russ Belliston, J, dec. Ricky Monson, M, 160-Clair Larsen, D,dec. by Mie Bauscom, P, 12: 8, 187-Craig Loe, D, pinned by Dan Johnson, P, 2nd nn:Todd Day, J. pinned Larry Moore, M, Ist per, Hwt-Tim Stamper, D, dec. by Scott Gardner, per., 169-Korey Christensen, J, rinned Mark P, 9-4. Haslam, M, 2nd per.. 187-Dale Everett, J, pinned Mike Larson, M. Ist per. Hwt-Todd McFarland gion M,pinned Kelly Coombs: J, 2nd per, Wrestling Sung, L Springville 36-CedarCity 100-Greg Robinson, CC, dec. Doug fer, S, 62, 107-Kendall Wilson, S, dec. Clarence Gray, CC, 21- 3, 114-Bruce Jenkins, S, pinned Galen Matheson, CC, 2nd per., 121-Dane Boren, CC, dec. Val Cook. S, 54. 128-Scott Harmer, S, dec. John Davis, S, 13-3, 1¢-Mark Wilson, S, dec. Brian Spencer, CC, 6-2, 141-Dan Duncan, S, pinned Shanon Comp, CC, 2nd per., 147-Shane Baggs, CC. dec. Lewis Scoville, S, 15-9, 157-Dirk Lopour, CC, dec. Ed Larson,S,4-1, 169- TEAM Plessant Grove Springville Spanish Fork Timpview Dixie Prove Catan"city Carbon American Fork T PCT. ‘, 0 0 1.000 6 2 0 70 6 20 530 440 440 350 750 625 500 500 3% 350 3% 160 102 08 0 0% Kings Clobber Jazz SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The Kansas City Kings seem te play their best basketball against the Utah Jazz, and Thursday night wasno exception. In each of four games against the Jazz this season, the Kings have walked away the victors. Three times they beat the Jazz by at least 16 points, as they did Thursday in taking a 110-88 decision in the Salt Palace. The Kings had to connect on 62 per- centoftheir field attempts to take that impressive victory. Utah hit only 48 percentofits shots. Kansas City coach Cotton Fitzsimmons thought that statistic revealed more than justtalent. “They caughtus real hot,"’ he said. “And, while Utah has beenhot. theyhit a cold night.”’ Kansas City was paced by 20 points a from Scott Wedman and 16points from Otis Birdsong. For a change, Adrian Dantley did not lead the Jazz scoring. Dantley's 19 points took back row to a 20-point performance from Terry Furlow. Wedmanhit 18 of his points on nine field goals in the first quarter. By the end of the quarter, Utah center Ben Poquette had collected three personal fouls, and was pulled off the court for the restofthe half. “When we had to take him out, that was it,” Jazz coach Tom Nissalke said “We were only down by three at the end of the quarter (32-29). even though they shot such a great percentage. Taking Poquette out wasthekiller.”” The Kingshit 71 percentof theirfirst- quarter shots, while Utahhit only half of its attempts. |